(courtesy of Allan Maggied, plant manager, Chesterfield Steel)
It all started in the early 1940s in an office on Dille Road when Baird Tewksbury opened Chesterfield Steel. The original part of today’s building was an ALCOA storage shed located on Harvard Avenue. Mr. Tewksbury had the building disassembled and reassembled, with additions, at the current 222nd and Tungsten location in Euclid, Ohio. The facility now is 117,000 square feet. Ed Weiner became Mr. Tewksbury’s partner in 1945. Somewhere in the late 1950s to early 1960s Mr. Tewksbury sold his half of the business to Ernie Tallisman. For a short time, the business was called Weiner-Tallisman. After Mr. Weiner’s passing in 1967, the Weiner family sold their portion of the business to Mr. Tallisman, and the Tallisman family owned the business until 2008 when it was purchased by Lerman Enterprises and became Steel Warehouse Cleveland, LLC, dba Chesterfield Steel. Continue reading Local steel processor cuts rolled steel for use in automotive parts